This year was an example of how to survive a shit storm in a teacup. There have been some great highlights for us. Great opportunities for me at least to learn something more about myself and life in general. That's right it's a shock I know that someone of my vintage can still learn stuff.
This year marked the loss of a few of our long standing core group of raiders with Maddy living in a country that has no net, Tom raiding with a part of his anatomy that shouldn't be discussed since achieving the life goal of getting a girlfriend, Sven moving onto Mythic Raiding with a horde guild and Ephi disappearing off the face of World of Warcraft. The good news was that we kept a lot of our core raiders too. These guys have been with the guild for nearly three years some over three years. I appreciate your staying with the guild through it's up and downs and putting Rift Warriors above other offers that you have received through those years at the expense of your own progression. It must be hard seeing those guilds romping it into the top end of the raiding leading board. We are currently 41st on the Server, 7th Alliance Guild on the server. Not a bad effort all things considered. I'm sure we will finish in an even better position.
We also have recruited some more guildies who have really been great for the guild and our progression. The boys from the former raiding guild Curse joined our ranks and I'm so very pleased that they did. I want to thank you guys for your productive advice and input into the raids and the guild in general. In particular yours and the guildies in general for the support of me, through the horrible real life drama of my beautiful dog dying. Achieving the seemingly impossible getting a laugh out of me with an inappropriate joke. The big recruiting news of course has been finally I managed to talk Sarior into joining Rifties it only took two expacs to get him :).
Lots of players are returning in dribs and drabs. Oak that's Professor Oak has returned from his exciting adventures overseas and can been seen back in the guild quietly getting things done on his Pally. A few other older members such as Grumpystumpy a priest and friend from Vanilla WoW days spent a couple of weeks leveling and chatting in vent. This was fun and actually got me to level an alt to 70 or so :)
Beartanks and Pangit were promoted to officers, they took on running alt runs which is something I've been wanting to achieve since SoO to gear new players up and provide a bit of fun. Mrs Pangit is getting geared and learning all that there is to learn in the alt raids hopefully she will join us in the main raid team at some stage. People like Rhysdogg who have the potential of doing well in raids can gear up and also get advice from more experienced players of druids such as Keiran who does awesome dps on his feral druid. We have also seen the return of Cexyleader who has the best bants in raid with Bainmar and Awolleader. Cexy and Bainmar have been consistently coming to the raids again. I hope that they continue to come along to provide great dps and even better Banter.
Seebo has also been promoted to Officer, once he fully recovers from "Beating the Arse out of that Cancer" I'm sure will be contributing as an officer as his recovery continues. This year I haven't been as proactive in my promotion of testing yourselves for testicular cancer here is a link explaining how to do a self examination. Seebo/Zem will tell you all how important it is for young men to be doing regular checks of their testicles with the aim of finding cancer at the early stages. Testicular Cancer is found mainly in young men around your ages.
On a brighter note this year we've had some fun times together. A very productive time in the raid tiers. We missed out on a server first kill by seconds when killing Kargath. We have moved slowly but consistently through the content. I think we are going to finish strongly if we keep going at the pace we have been getting through heroic HFC. I have been recruiting for the next expansion with mixed success as is the way with recruiting. If you happen across anyone who you would like to invite to the guild then do not hesitate to get them in. It would be nice to have two Death Knights for some of the boss fights coming up.
So finally a BIG thank you to all the guildies and here's hoping (fingers crossed) that next expansion brings great fun. Consistent raiding success and new friendships. Hopefully a couple of University Graduates another baby or three because I love babies and no more cancer or pet deaths or deaths in general unless it's of raid bosses then bring that on.
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